George Lucas and ILM President Chrissie England Among Recipients of
National Medals of Science and Technology at White House on Monday;
Industrial Light & Magic is First Entertainment Company to Receive
Nation's Highest Technology Honor
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--President George W. Bush will present the National
Medals of Technology and the National Medals of Science for 2004 in a
White House ceremony at 10:40 a.m. (EST) on Monday, Feb. 13.


Among the recipients will be Lucasfilm Ltd. founder George Lucas and
Industrial Light & Magic President Chrissie England. Monday's ceremony
marks the first time an entertainment company has received the
National Medal of Technology. San Francisco-based Industrial Light &
Magic is nominated for two Best Visual Effects Oscars at the 78th
Annual Academy Awards, for its work on War of the Worlds and The
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez, whose agency administers the
National Medal of Technology program for the President, will attend
the ceremony with Dr. John H. Marburger, III, Director of the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The President's presentation of the medals will be carried live via a
two-camera satellite feed and Webcast on the White House Web site
(http://www.whitehouse.gov).

Who: President George W. Bush will present the National Medal of
Technology to two individuals and five companies, including San
Francisco's Industrial Light and Magic, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company.
Lucasfilm founder and Chairman George Lucas and ILM President Chrissie
England will accept the award.

What: The National Medal of Technology is the nation's highest
honor for innovation. Established by Congress in 1980, the NMT
recognizes the significant contribution America's innovators have made
to the Nation's economic strength and standard of living. Past
individual and company winners include: Dean Kamen, Bill Gates, IBM,
Ray Kurzweil, AMGEN, Gordon Moore and David Packard. For more
information about the Medal, please visit
http://www.technology.gov/medal/

Where: The White House, East Room

When: 10:40 a.m. EST, Monday, Feb. 13, 2006

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For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact
Marlene Saritzky at 415-623-1962 or marlene.saritzky@lucasfilm.com.
For satellite feed information, please contact Barbara Valentino at
202-333-6195 or barbara@evolvingcom.com.